Assignment 1: You have all been assigned the role of a certain European leader, you will now assume this persona and issue an official diplomatic response to the formation of the First Republic as well as the event of the French Revolution.
This assignment is designed to get you to put yourself in the shoes of European leaders at the beginning of the 19th century. In preparation for your Diplomatic Blog Responses, you should conduct research regarding the politics of your assigned nation as well as biographical information on their representative leaders.
In your diplomatic responses, you should either condemn or praise the Revolution, however you should be writing from the perspective of your assigned nations, rather than your own personal feelings. In your responses you should allude to events of the revolution that your "person," would like or dislike.
Timmy: England/George III
Tommy: United States of America/George Washington
Tammy: Spain/Charles IV
Terry: Prussia/Frederick the Great
Tyrone: Holy Roman Empire/Francis II
Thelma: Russia/Alexander I
Tanya: Italy/Garibaldi
Theodore: Poland/Stanislaw Poniatowski
Tricia: Sweden/Gustav IV
Theresa: Haiti/Toussaint Louverture
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Assignment 2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars are very confusing, in an effort to clear up this confusion we will create an interactive timeline by creating a slideshow and embedding it into the Class Wiki!
The Timeline will have visual as well as written components.
Each student will choose three events, they will find an appropriate image to correspond with the event, and will provide a brief caption detailing the significance of this event.
A list of potential events has been generated, however you are free to choose any not listed if you can provide information on its importance.
Events must be placed in chronological order, and this may require communication between students. Feel free to use the discussion page of the wiki, the moodle forums, or outside blogs to collaboratively create the timeline.
CLASS GRADES-UNIT IV
The class Moodle as I envision it is a way for me to communicate with my students. The Moodle site will allow me the flexibility to post articles, grades, homework assignments, study materials and internet links. The class moodle essentially takes the place of the paper syllabus and all of those annoying handouts.
The class wiki is different from the Moodle in that it is more of a resource for the students. It is a way for students to hand in homework, or develop a comprehensive set of notes. The Wiki is designed for peer-to-peer viewership. The wiki will be "owned" by the class, they can use it as a tool in a similar way as they would have in the past with pens, paper and textbooks.
The use of these technologies will not only help students learn history, but will introduce them to the latest and greatest in computer and web based technologies. By incorporating programs such as moodle, wikispaces, blogs, google docs, amongst others, students will develop the required skills for information retrieval, storage and use in the information age.
UNIT V: Europe & the Age of Revolution
Assignment 1: You have all been assigned the role of a certain European leader, you will now assume this persona and issue an official diplomatic response to the formation of the First Republic as well as the event of the French Revolution.
This assignment is designed to get you to put yourself in the shoes of European leaders at the beginning of the 19th century. In preparation for your Diplomatic Blog Responses, you should conduct research regarding the politics of your assigned nation as well as biographical information on their representative leaders.
In your diplomatic responses, you should either condemn or praise the Revolution, however you should be writing from the perspective of your assigned nations, rather than your own personal feelings. In your responses you should allude to events of the revolution that your "person," would like or dislike.
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Assignment 2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars are very confusing, in an effort to clear up this confusion we will create an interactive timeline by creating a slideshow and embedding it into the Class Wiki!
The Timeline will have visual as well as written components.
Each student will choose three events, they will find an appropriate image to correspond with the event, and will provide a brief caption detailing the significance of this event.
A list of potential events has been generated, however you are free to choose any not listed if you can provide information on its importance.
Events must be placed in chronological order, and this may require communication between students. Feel free to use the discussion page of the wiki, the moodle forums, or outside blogs to collaboratively create the timeline.
CLASS GRADES-UNIT IV
The class Moodle as I envision it is a way for me to communicate with my students. The Moodle site will allow me the flexibility to post articles, grades, homework assignments, study materials and internet links. The class moodle essentially takes the place of the paper syllabus and all of those annoying handouts.
The class wiki is different from the Moodle in that it is more of a resource for the students. It is a way for students to hand in homework, or develop a comprehensive set of notes. The Wiki is designed for peer-to-peer viewership. The wiki will be "owned" by the class, they can use it as a tool in a similar way as they would have in the past with pens, paper and textbooks.
The use of these technologies will not only help students learn history, but will introduce them to the latest and greatest in computer and web based technologies. By incorporating programs such as moodle, wikispaces, blogs, google docs, amongst others, students will develop the required skills for information retrieval, storage and use in the information age.